Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-21

face. If young orchards are watered IN
tIrv weather. sec 10 it that the surface when
wnter is put oh is shaded with mulch.
Some authorities practise the grdling OF
apple trees. An illinois apple grower
takes off narrow strip, say half-inch
wide. of the very outer bark all the way
around his apple trees when they are six
years old, which ho claims sets them AZ
once bearing. None but the outer Dark
should be removed. Ii this plan is TO be
followed up, we would advise thick plant.
ing of the trees, say not over Twelve lee,
apart each way, and girdle only every thlrd
tree or row each way. We are inclined TO
think this girdling of trees must shorten
their lives: Persons having trees that
blossom but never bear should try girdiing.
M. Crawford believes that copperas IS a
preventive of grape rot. In vineyard IN
Ohio where quart to the square rod has
been sown in July for three years there has
been no rot, while other grapes in the same
neiehborhood have rotted moro or less
every year.
We are setting raspberries, both red and
black, thicker in the rows than formerly, SO
as to make hedgerow, and the first fruit
ing season get very good paying crop
from the same. Our plan is TO set rows
six feet apart and row of corn or potatoes
between. we usuuilJ pun w oS''Ahts .SS
raspberries until the last of May and first,
of June, and even up to the first of July,
and take up the new this springs growth
on damp, cloudy days. Keep the roofs
from. drying out, and set us soon as pos
sibl Pter digging.
A Correspondent gives his way of keep
ing the curculio off the plum and cherry
trees. Take refuse wool and tie it around
the trunk of the tree SO as TO let it hang
down, and then every morning turn up the
wool and catch them. Another way recon-
mended is to wind the body with strip of
paper six inches wide, and keep this paper
we'll coated with printers ink or similar
substance.
To be successful with an apple orchard,
we ndvisie setting out on a westerly slope,
as the blossoming is kept back thereby.
Train trees with branches low. Have the
land well drained, and if titled, place them
in deep. Prevent limbs from crossing by
cutting off one. In eastern sections, keep
the ground we'll cultivated for years, while
on the itch lands of the west, after trees
get started, seed down.
In pruning trees it is better to have one
strong branch or limb than two or three
weak ones. Let the suns rays in all
through the trees. The highest and richest
colored apples grow on trees having spread
Keep suckers off the limbs and body in
midsummer. Spring g-trimmed trees pro-
duce the most suckers.
If blight strikes the pear tree, slit the
bark on one side of limb or body, from af-
fected part downward, at once, and give
coat of pure linseed oil. This Sitting is
beneficial TO hide bound trees. with good
coat of whitewash added. A good time to
prune trees is right away after they have
lenved out. There is no better or safer
time than this for cutting limbs from trees.
An expert in grape pruning gives the
following advice. When the leaves are
we'll grown and the grapes begin to form,
you can cut off, as you please, all the
branches or saw off the vines. There will
be no bleeding. He prefers the spring, for
the entire growth of the last year is before
you, and the best bearing wood can be
seen.-A. M. Pardy, in Popular Garden
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